Tag Archives: solar power

Japan’s Choice: Go Solar or Go Dark

Posted on April 4, 2011 by engineerzero

“Japan’s dim capital faces further power crunch” (Associated Press, April 3): About 9 million kilowatts of capacity may be gone forever as the radiation-leaking Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is likely to be scrapped and the future of the halted Dai-ni … Continue reading →

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Japan Solar Energy Graphics

Posted on March 27, 2011 by engineerzero

Sometimes it seems that nuclear power advocates are attempting to insinuate that Japan doesn’t have enough land area to use solar energy in place of nuclear energy. Here’s what the solar panel requirements actually look like. Per person: [Calculations: Electrical … Continue reading →

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Would GE make more money by decommissioning reactors?

Posted on March 21, 2011 by engineerzero

In the United States today, there are thirty-five boiling water reactors, of the same type as at Fukushima. Nuclear decommissioning costs around $325 million per plant. So if all the GE plants were to be decommissioned immediately, GE (which would … Continue reading →

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Neighborhood Power Plants: An Alternative to Catastrophe and Collapse

Posted on March 14, 2011 by engineerzero

Today was a gloomy day here in the Seattle region. The sky was overcast and it was nonstop raining. I happened to be driving through downtown around noontime when I saw a sign which gave the solar flux: .23 kw. … Continue reading →

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Engineer’s Dreams

Posted on February 3, 2011 by engineerzero

Engineer’s Dreams: Great projects that could come true, by Willy Ley (1954). Here is a book that I found at Half Price Books that has been out of print for decades. Not only is it over fifty years old, it … Continue reading →

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